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How long will it take you to read those (how long per book with page count)?
Do you take requests? I have some stuff I’d like to see a review of.
With all that reading, when are you going to have time to split and stack the firewood you’ll need to survive the winter?
With all that reading, when are you going to have time to split and stack the firewood you’ll need to survive the winter?
But Jacob’s reading habits are not....Fortunately the winters in Louisiana are...manageable (coming from a resident of Michigan).
Fortunately the winters in Louisiana are...manageable (coming from a resident of Michigan).
Lewis, Selected Essays
Plutarch
Herodotus
Edmund Spenser
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Boswell's Life of Johnson
I predict that you'll love James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, in which case, here's two more you should read:
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019).
Is the point to impress us? I see these kinds of posts on social media and they usually strike me as somewhat braggadocious.
Is the point to impress us? I see these kinds of posts on social media and they usually strike me as somewhat braggadocious.
Though I am sure it wasn't your intention, these kinds of things just strike me as vain displays of erudition. Godly individuals indulging in such behavior online is sadly very common.No. I think this is the only picture I have posted on PB. I have nothing to impress. I know who I am. People always ask me what I am reading, so I posted it.
Brother, you misread me. Admitting it was "wasn't your intention" to be vain or boastful while at the same time explaining my initial post on the grounds that many are, is not mutually exclusive. I do sincerely accept your explanation. I was only explaining my initial response.My various reading has helped people. I woke up this morning to a message from a PhD candidate asking me for advice. I don't do this for myself (Or only a little bit). If I wanted to be vain and boastful, I would have posted all of the books I am reading. I didn't do that because my Wal Mart flip phone doesn't really take pictures and I really didn't know how to work my daughter's kindle fire.
I really didn't know how to work my daughter's kindle fire.
Jacob,Sounds like you need to add 1 more book to your summer list (Instruction Manual for the Kindle).